Episode #31: On Easter Sunday, Eli looks to get back in Nucky’s good graces at a Thompson family reunion. While Richard and Tommy (Brady and Connor Noon) spend the day as guests of the Sagorskys, Gillian stays at home and makes a sacrifice to improve her future. In New York, after dinner and prayers, Gyp heads downtown in search of a blessing – from Joe Masseria. Written by Howard Korder; directed by Allen Coulter.

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* Tonight begins with an easter egg and a song made famous by Richie Havens.

* Just in time for Halloween, tonight’s episode deals with how many of the series’ characters deal with Easter dinner.

like one? ridiculous. also needs more capone, torrio and rothstein. more luciano/lansky/benny is also always great. i thought killing off jimmy angela and the commodore would give these characters more screen time. however now even eli and van alden ave been diminshed! at least it seems like tonight will be a big episode for eli.
and duketogo84 that would be crazy

I'm thinking the same thing as duketogo84. Gillian kills Jimmy's clone with a headshot. Passes the body off as Jimmy. And yeah, there are so many fantastic characters that I want to see more of, yet they don't have time to do that. It's so sad. I want more Billie Kent, dammit! Particularly since the synopses that Herc posted a weekend or two ago made it seem like she wouldn't be around for very long.
(And if you think that's a spoiler, you're a jackass. That is CLEARLY the implication of Eddie's comment/insult asking Billie if she knew anything about Lucy Danzinger. "Lucy Danzinger. Ever heard of her? The next one won't know a goddamn thing about you either." That quote, btw, makes it very obvious that Paz de la Huerta probably won't be back on the show either.)

Last episode felt like about 20 minutes of story stretched out over the better part of an hour.
It was not without consequence. But it was one of few times I've considered the "nothing happens in this show" complaint even remotely valid.
Could be that the breakneck pace of the season's first four weeks set me up for a letdown.

..if there isn't a need for them to be there, don't jam them into the show. While it's a different animal True Blood sometimes suffers from doing just that. They have some many people in so many places you end up getting 4-5 minutes of each character and that's it!
Margaret was a real piece of work. She opens up to Eli's wife "oh Nucky cheats on me" after getting more Owen cock last week.
It will be interesting to see how Fake Jimmy's death is handled. Richard will know it's not him and word of his death will reach Nucky & Eli. But how many others would really know it wasn't him dead in that tub?
I can't wait to see how Micky reacts to Eli being his partner now. ""How the fuck are you still alive?".......Could the Doyle Death Watch be near an end?

For once my favorite scene was a Margaret one. The scene between her and June, who has been played solidly by that actress in all five minutes of screen time she's had in the show, was wonderful.
THAT'S how you get across the plight of the average woman in the twenties without bringing the show to a screeching halt.

I love how they replaced a conflicted, multidimensional, multifaceted, nuanced character study in Jimmy with a cliche, pseudo racist, redundant, caricature in Rosetti.<p>
First couple of episodes I was intrigued, now it's becoming readily more apparent that Pitt was unexpectedly written off the show due to his difficult nature.<p>
Anyone who thinks Rosetti was a preplanned, natural course of events in some sort of multiseasonal grand storytelling visionary arc envisioned by the writers when watching the show's pilot isn't dealing with reality.<p>
Rosetti is the show runners trying to make us all forget about 2 seasons of Jimmy by replacing him with a completely over the top nemesis for Nucky.<p>
Still enjoy the show however..........

Don't forget: he'll grow up with the official story of his father's death being a heroin overdose in a bathtub. Despite how much of the truth he may learn, he'll still have to deal with that at least as public perception.

Between that and Deadwood, HBO's early shitcanning of both those shows drove me away from the company. It's why I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop with "Game of Thrones". Rome's first season was spectacular. Rome's second season was fucking maddening because they were just blowing through awesome source material in an effort to put their whole story on the screen. It's too bad. Had Rome had its full three seasons, it would have been one of the best shows ever. Instead, it was just an expensive footnote in HBO's library.